After Thursday’s meeting with chief minister Mamata Banerjee, the Kolkata Puja organisers are more than happy and said that now they will be able to celebrate Puja safely and without any confusion. According to them, the main problem was ...

The amount of fur shedding in dogs depends on its breed. Some breeds, like Labrador and Newfoundlands shed fur a lot. Again, for Dachshunds and Poodles’ shedding is almost negligible. Broadly speaking, this is the season when almost all ...

The government's apathy towards the plight of performing artistes has left them disappointed. Even though most fields of work have opened up in the unlock phases, live concerts and entertainment programmes have received a setback according to government rules. ...

KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a complaint with West Bengal Police in connection with forgery of documents related to a ponzi scam case which the central agency is investigating, an official said on Friday. The ED received ...

BHUBANESWAR: Farmers across Odisha on Friday staged protests against the passage of the contentious firm Bills by the Parliament. The protests were joined by farmers, trade union workers, activists and students, while several political parties, including the Congress, extended ...

GUWAHATI: Assam will be the first state in the country to allow Covid-recovered persons to enter the state without the necessity of going through a second test on arrival. “This decision has been taken on the basis of scientific ...

GUWAHATI: Assam is currently engaged in clinical trial of Covid-19 treatment with combination of two drugs—baricitinib and remdesivir to reduce recovery time among patients but while number of positive cases are starting to take more time than before to ...

KOLKATA: A woman was killed and her two daughters were seriously injured allegedly by a relative over a family dispute in the city's Ekbalpore area on Friday, a senior police officer said. The man was arrested after he went ...

KOLKATA: The Covid-19 death toll in West Bengal rose to 4,665 on Friday after 59 more people succumbed to the disease, a bulletin issued by the state health department said. The tally went up to 2,41,059 after 3,190 people ...

Social and cultural activist Sundeep Bhutoria is widely known for his activities and philanthropy. He not only hosts the best get-togethers but also can be seen at ground zero implementing social welfare projects for the children, women and the ...

KOLKATA: Nine persons have been arrested from various parts of Kolkata for allegedly betting on an Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket match, the police said on Friday. Several documents, 14 laptops, 17 mobile phones, 3 T.V. and a ...

KOLKATA: A fire broke out in the third floor of Bidhnanagar Municipal Corporation building in Salt Lake on Friday afternoon. Four fire tenders were sent to the spot to douse the blaze. The entire building has been evacuated due ...

Kolkata: Metro Railway has decided to run six more trains on the north-south corridor from Monday and extend services by half an hour. Metro Railway GM Manoj Joshi said, “We are adding six services to the existing 110 on ...

Kolkata: A Nigerian and an Ivory Coast national were arrested from Bengaluru by Bidhannagar police on Wednesday for allegedly duping a Salt Lake resident of more than Rs 82 lakh over several weeks. The duo was produced in a ...

Kolkata: The KMC assessment department will soon upload information on the city’s available land and its status, especially in areas located off EM Bypass or parts of added areas such as Behala, Tollygunge and Jadavpur, on its website to ...

Kolkata: Eminent nuclear scientist Sekhar Basu, 68, succumbed to Covid at a private hospital in Kolkata early on Thursday. A former director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and a secretary to the government of India’s department of atomic energy, ...

Kolkata: An assistant sub inspector posted with Haridevpur police station, Tushar Kanti Koley (53), became the eleventh cop in Kolkata Police to lose his life after battling Covid. Koley became the first officer in the southwest (Behala) division to ...

Kolkata: Even as access to treatment facilities remains restricted in the city amid the pandemic, Kolkata is set to have 60 more beds, including a new hospital. While Techno Global Hospital — a multispecialty centre — was launched last ...

Kolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is scheduled to relaunch the much anticipated app-based public bicycle sharing scheme on September 29. NKDA chairman Debashis Sen said the scheme would be re-launched with 100 app-based bicycles that will ...

Kolkata: The Bengal fire services department on Thursday introduced a few equipment to fight devastating incidents in areas where fire officials or fire tenders cannot reach. The equipment include four robotic fire-fighters, five multipurpose foam tenders, 100 motorcycle fire ...

Kolkata: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has lodged an FIR alleging that a fake BPO was issuing forged permission letters to set up cellphone towers. Debjit Saha, senior research officer at TRAI’s Kolkata regional unit, has complained that some ...

Kolkata: It was a momentous occasion for women in sports when on Thursday Google paid tribute to Indian swimmer Arati Saha on her 80th birth anniversary with a doodle by Kolkata’s illustrator/animator Lavanya Naidu. On September 29, 1959, Saha ...

Kolkata: Terminal-semester commerce students at Calcutta University-affiliated colleges seem to struggle with studies as parts of their syllabus were far from being completed when their institutes shut for the pandemic. Over a month of their classes were still left ...

Kolkata: The Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) asking schools to submit question papers of all subjects for unit or half-yearly exams in classes X and XII by October 17 was aimed at ensuring that tests were being ...

Kolkata: The Consortium of National Law Universities told West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) on Thursday that it would not take an immediate decision on whether a later date for a special CLAT could be slotted or ...

Kolkata: Months of anxiety and worry came to an end on Thursday evening when CM Mamata Banerjee announced a grant of Rs 50,000 to each registered Durga Puja organizer. For 2,000-odd para Pujas that operate on a shoe-string budget, ...

Kolkata: Several city schools on Thursday told the Calcutta High Court that they were willing to introduce several measures to ease financial burden on parents. These measures include delayed payment of fees in instalments, reducing several fee components and ...

Kolkata: Even as poor loads continue to plague the Air India London-Kolkata flights that were introduced last week, the high occupancy in the business class has surpassed the airline’s expectations. In all three flights that have operated so far, ...

Kolkata: The city airport authorities brushed up some of the minor hitches that had come up during the trial runs of the new transfer facility for domestic to domestic transit passengers over the last few days and are all ...

Kolkata: Thieves broke into three shops on Lenin Sarani on Wednesday night and while they failed to steal anything significant from two shops, they decamped with Rs 50,000 kept in the cash box of a hardware goods shop. Cops ...

Kolkata: The Centre of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Bengal government’s randomized control trial on use of convalescent plasma therapy in severe Covid-19 patients has shown an immediate reduction in hypoxia (oxygen deprivation) as compared to patients on ...

Kolkata: The state government has decided to grant Rs 50,000 each to around 27,000 Puja committees, a 50% deduction on power bills and several fee waivers, apart from enforcing a host of safety measures, chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced ...

Kolkata: The Bengal government may be looking at an early-November date for reopening schools in the state. Senior Bengal government officials told TOI on Thursday that “discussions were on for a possible reopening of government and government-aided schools in ...

Kolkata: The West Bengal cabinet on Thursday approved a 5MW grid-connected floating solar project at Sagardighi Thermal Power Project (SgTPP) in Murshidabad. State power minister Sovondeb Chattopadhyay raised the issue at the cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Mamata ...

Berhampore: The CBI, which is investigating the illegal cattle trade on India-Bangladesh border, is likely to book more persons following preliminary probe against a senior BSF officer, his son and three others, including the alleged kingpin. The agency is ...

Kolkata: The twin murders of an elderly couple at Habra in North 24 Parganas a week ago took a fresh turn on Thursday with the arrest of their youngest son-in-law. Police said accused Bunty Sadhukha had engaged a hitman ...

Durgapur: The prolonged lockdown cut off cash inflow of an amusement park near Durgapur City Centre. Its 45 employees have, nevertheless, been paid their salaries even though the park has been closed to visitors since March. As cash reserves ...

After almost six months of inactivity due to the lockdown, the light engineers of Chandannagar are finally back in action, beating the pandemic blues with innovative lighting ideas picked straight from national news. From remembering late actor Sushant Singh ...

Lighting artisan Pintu Mukherjee is in business for three decades now. He and his team of artisans designed lights for many pandals, including Singhi Park, for years. This year, however, is different. Till now, there is no confirmation of ...

Kolkata: For many struggling with this raging pandemic, it is almost impossible to understand the scale of loss and destruction that was thrown at India during the first half of the 20 century. The scars of riots and ...